In the middle ages there were a lot of sicknesses. If you got a diease they thought you had a curse.
some of the cures were...

*Blood Letting
*Holes In Head
*Magic
*Herbs
*Charms
The black plague killed over 75 million people. There
was also another sickness called Leprosy. The black plague affected
the middle ages by decreasing the amount of people they had. In
the middle ages they needed as many people as possible because
they had to fight and work.

Hand gangrene
Hand gangrene

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